Here’s a few extra quotes and notes from the first three days of the Brogden Tournament, from Powell Latimer and Tim Hower. We’ll have a live chat up for the championship rounds as well.

Laney coach Fred Lynch on Hoggard and Vikings guard Stilman White:

“They’re a good ball club and they shoot the ball well. We kept losing them. Stilman just played a heck of a game and we just couldn’t control him. We told our guys, just get in front of him. He was getting so much penetration and kicking. We had to make that adjustment.”

Lynch on late-game situations

“Play defense. I mean really, that’s what I told them, ‘Guys, we’ve got to get up in the passing lanes and stop allowing them to run the offense.’ That’s what we were doing for a long time, and they were just running their stuff and we were watching.”

Lynch on his team’s performance while trailing

“We talked to our kids about these are the games that make you. What do we do when things aren’t going well? When we get down are you going to fight or are you just going to give the ballgame away? And we chose to fight.”

From Tim Hower:

Balanced attack is key for Hoggard

In Hoggard’s opening-round win against Bunn, eight different players scored. Seven of those players scored at least six points.

That is the kind of balanced Vikings’ coach Brett Queen is looking for. Stilman White is still the first and most times the second option for Hoggard, but the threat of other’s being able to score will open things up for him.

“We got some good production, especially two of our post guys off the bench. Nick Stauble and Trevor Singleton combined for 14 points from our five spot off the bench, which is encouraging to get that kind of production,” Queen said.

The Vikings are arguably the most unselfish team in the area. They assisted on 22 of 29 field goals Monday.

“We know that when we play together we are a lot better and a lot harder to guard,” White said. “It’s a lot easier to guard one or two people than five. It makes the defense play honest and when we play together it makes things a lot easier for yourself. Coach Queen drills it in our head and we buy into it.”